50 RIO JANEIRO. 
minds, and as if in strong contrast with it, we met the funeral of 
a person of distinction. A black hearse, ornamented with black 
plumes, was drawn by mules. The driver had a cocked hat and 
black plume. The coffin was covered with a scarlet pall ornamented 
with silver. About twenty altar-boys in their church dress, pre- 
ceded the hearse, which was surrounded by about the same number 
of black servants, in livery, all carrying lighted, wax candles. The 
body, on arrival at the Imperial Chapel, was removed into it, and all 
who entered the chapel were furnished with lighted tapers. Mass 
and the funeral service were performed by the priest, and some 
delightful music by a full choir. The body was then taken into 
the Campo Santo, a kind of amphitheatre, with high walls, a short 
distance from the church. About a thousand vaults are built in the 
wall. One of them was opened, the body interred, and the wall 
built up again. The centre of this sepulchre is laid out in a flower 
garden, and is about one hundred feet in diameter. 
^ December 2d was the birthday of the Emperor, Don Pedro the 
Second, who then was thirteen years old. It was celebrated with all 
due pomp. Great preparations had been making for many days. He 
was to pass into the city from St. Christoval, his usual residence, in 
procession, and to hold a levee at the city palace. The streets were 
strewn with orange and other leaves, a triumphal arch erected, &c. 
But a description of his progress will give a better idea of it. 
Having left St. Christoval, he entered the city about noon, preceded 
by a large troop of horse. He rode with his sisters, one sixteen, the 
other fourteen years of age, in a splendid English carriage, with 
bronze and gold mountings, drawn by eight cream-coloured horses, 
gaily caparisoned, with silver-mounted harness, the servants in rich 
liveries. Three carriages, drawn by six horses each, followed, con- 
taining officers of state and his household, the whole surrounded by 
the Emperor's guards, and above five thousand military following. 
Great crowds of people had assembled to witness this parade. As the 
carriages passed under the balconies, garlands of flowers were thrown 
upon them. They entered the principal street through a triumphal 
arch beautifully decorated with natural flowers, on which were placed' 
two little boys, dressed in blue and pink, with wings to represent 
angels, each holding a basket of flowers, which they threw on the 
young monarch as he passed. The houses in the streets through 
which the procession moved, were hung with satin damask draperies 
of the richest tints. These I understand are kept expressly for such 
